Liberia : The Violence of Democracy.

By:

Moran, Mary H

Material type: Text

TextSeries: The Ethnography of Political Violence SeriesPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008Copyright date: ©2006Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (201 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780812202847

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Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: LiberiaDDC classification:

966.6203/3

LOC classification:

DT636.5 -- .M69 2006eb

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Contents:

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction: Liberia, Violence, and Democracy -- 1: The Case for Indigenous Democracy -- 2: Contested Histories -- 3: Civilization and the Liberian Nation -- 4: The Promise and Terror of Elections -- 5: The Lock on the Outhouse Door: Discourses of Development -- 6: The Crisis of Youth and the Promise of the Future -- 7: Conclusion: A Wedding and a Funeral -- References -- Index -- Acknowledgments.

Summary: Moran argues that democracy is not a foreign import into Africa, but that essential aspects of what we in the West consider democratic values are part of the indigenous traditions of legitimacy and political process.

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Moran argues that democracy is not a foreign import into Africa, but that essential aspects of what we in the West consider democratic values are part of the indigenous traditions of legitimacy and political process.

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